Spareribs and roasted vegetables were featured in our Locally Grown Meal. The spareribs came from Haffner Family Farm. Every item served had a story of where it came from and who grew it. A great connection between the food we eat and local growers.
..and welcome from The Local Growers.
Here you will find the stories about those individuals who grow food and make products locally.
These are some of the people I’ve met while looking for good foods - locally grown foods.
I know their journey. It’s one I experienced growing up on our family farm in West Central Minnesota. That farm was diversified. In other words, we raised several things - crops, hogs, dairy and chickens.
Our meals featured the garden produce my mom harvested, canned and froze and the meat, eggs and dairy products we raised.
It was wholesome food!
While I don’t live on that farm anymore, I am always on the search for locally grown foods. I invite you to join me in this great journey.
Let’s go!
All in Produce
Spareribs and roasted vegetables were featured in our Locally Grown Meal. The spareribs came from Haffner Family Farm. Every item served had a story of where it came from and who grew it. A great connection between the food we eat and local growers.
Noreen Thomas and her furry friend live near Moorhead, MN on a certified organic farm. Noreen and her husband, Lee, raise organic crops and have added value to their crops by selling items like oat groats, pearled barley, rolled oats and more on their website’s online store. doubtingthomasfarm.com.
The conversation flowed as we sipped local wines, enjoyed local meats and cheeses for appetizers, relished the entrees of roasted vegetables and grilled spareribs and savored desserts of peach pie and rhubarb torte. There’s nothing like a Locally Grown Meal shared with friends.
OUCH! A fall resulted in sprained fingers, an arthritis flare and bruised lip! The result was time away from the computer (I didn’t want to, but I couldn’t keyboard with the bum finger), but it couldn’t stop my sister and I from our weekly farmers market haul!
Fresh fruits and vegetables are okay during the COVID-19 pandemic - just remember to wash!
A gardening failure led a Zumbrota, MN couple to look at garden production and raising microgreens. The microgreens are grown year-round on their urban farm.
In these uncertain times, local growers can help meet food needs. Contact them.
It’s a great time for Farmers Market produce! There are a lot of great fresh fruits and vegetables available now. Check it out!